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June 25, 2026

Agentic AI, Meatspace, and Martin Luther

Stop hiring humans. They get sick, have children, and occasionally observe religious holidays. Bots, on the other hand, never waste time on these sorts of things. Bots don’t take personal days or holidays, and they never have children with runny noses. Continue Reading...
June 24, 2026

In Grand Rapids, Acton Makes Liberty Larger Than the Self

At Acton, I learned that faith and freedom were not rival loyalties after all. A few weeks into the Acton Institute’s Emerging Leaders Program in Grand Rapids, I wrote something on LinkedIn that captured my state of mind more honestly than I knew at the time: “I Am in Grand Rapids, Caught Between the Architecture of Ideas and the Reality of Nigeria.” Continue Reading...
June 23, 2026

An Economist’s Summer Reading List

It’s that time of year again: Acton University is in full swing with long summer days and short summer nights. It’s the perfect time to add to your reading collection, so if you’re attending AU, swing by the bookstore, which carries many of these reads. Continue Reading...
June 23, 2026

The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism

In July 2025, I visited Stanford University. Tacked up all over the campus were leaflets identifying Israel as a leading—possibly, the leading—cause of climate change. The notion that a country of 10 million people could be a principal agent bringing about a global rise in temperatures is, of course, ridiculous. Continue Reading...
June 17, 2026

Homeschoolers Aren’t Weird (Anymore)

In her short, accessible book, Skipping School, Dixie Dillon Lane traces how American homeschooling went “mainstream.” Combining quantitative research with qualitative interviews, Lane has written a compelling history of an important but notoriously “hidden” population in American education. Continue Reading...
June 11, 2026

Robert Louis Wilken: 1936–2026

In my first year at the University of Virginia, I registered for a course on the history of Christianity from the birth of Christ to the conversion of Vladimir the Great of the Kievan Rus in 988. Continue Reading...